Cattle baron George McLintock (John Wayne) seems to have it all: money, livestock, ranch, and respect. The only thing missing is his wife, Katherine (Maureen O'Hara), who left him two years earlier, suspecting him of adultery and taking his daughter (Stefanie Powers) with her. McLintock gets on with his life, saving a beautiful but impoverished widow (Yvonne De Carlo) from resettlement, then hiring her as his cook and welcoming her and her two children into his house. But when his daughter returns to the ranch, mom soon follows to fetch her back east. This western take on Taming of the Shrew offered a comic change of pace for the Duke in 1963.